We will never know. Multiple refs and leagues have been caught red handed unfairly giving advantage to certain teams. With the amount of money involved, I wouldn’t be surprised if a few individual referees were being bribed.
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We will never know. Multiple refs and leagues have been caught red handed unfairly giving advantage to certain teams. With the amount of money involved, I wouldn’t be surprised if a few individual referees were being bribed.
Winks probably our best player today
Probably our poorest players :
- Dele, who is not a right winger and looked off form, possibly in part because he was played there. I understand the need to rest/rotate Moura and its unfortunate that Bergwijn was not fit enough to play there rather than Dele. Really shows we are short inn the attacking ositions
- Hojbjerg, seems to be on a mini poor run after 50+ successive PL starts. A real shame
- Son probably belongs in this group, everyone's entitled to the off off day.
The other players were somewhere in between. I wonder if most of the team were a bit fatigued after playing a game 48 hours before and if given an extra days rest we would have fared better ? But if we'd got a fair var decision we'd have got the win.
Probably our poorest players :
- Dele, who is not a right winger and looked off form, possibly in part because he was played there. I understand the need to rest/rotate Moura and its unfortunate that Bergwijn was not fit enough to play there rather than Dele. Really shows we are short inn the attacking ositions
- Hojbjerg, seems to be on a mini poor run after 50+ successive PL starts. A real shame
- Son probably belongs in this group, everyone's entitled to the off off day.
The other players were somewhere in between. I wonder if most of the team were a bit fatigued after playing a game 48 hours before and if given an extra days rest we would have fared better ? But if we'd got a fair var decision we'd have got the win.
Frustrating.
However, today's game reminded us of the technical deficiencies that runs through this team. There's bustle and effort and all that good stuff, but the ability to do very basic stuff, very quickly and with perfect precision is what separates Liverpool and City from everyone else.
And we missed Skipp.
However, today's game reminded us of the technical deficiencies that runs through this team. There's bustle and effort and all that good stuff, but the ability to do very basic stuff, very quickly and with perfect precision is what separates Liverpool and City from everyone else.
And we missed Skipp.
The worst thing could be their own personal agendas but bribes are very unlikley.
You gotta roll with it mate.
I think it’s often an attempt to “even it up”. Because saints had a red they were going to dissect everything and try to give them the benefit of the doubt as to not be labeled biased.
It always bothers me because you don’t even out correct calls. And the penalty on Son was clear and obvious.
But I do believe that leads to decisions like the 2 made today after the penalty,
This is dodgy as fuck. Some PL clubs have relationships with unlicensed bookmakers in Asia. I can’t see how it is allowed. It doesn’t take much for pressure to be applied to people within the game.
Opening paragraphs….
Follow Leyu,” says Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta in a slick promotional video to mark a new commercial agreement between the European champions and Leyu Sports.
You would be forgiven for not having heard of the company, an obscure Asian gambling firm with little to no digital footprint outside of eye-catching sponsorship deals with Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain.
And listening to Azpilicueta’s instruction and following Leyu on the social media website LinkedIn only leads down a bizarre rabbit hole of fake profile pictures, deleted accounts and a seemingly non-existent branding agency.
It is a rabbit hole that raises serious questions for Chelsea — who help beam Leyu’s branding around Stamford Bridge, seen across the world — as well as many other European football clubs.
At a time when the spotlight is on football’s uneasy relationship with gambling, Premier League clubs including Aston Villa, Burnley, Everton and Southampton have signed deals with similarly obscure Asian betting companies.
These firms are often represented by untraceable individuals, which in some cases encourage users to expose themselves to cybersecurity risks in order to use their products. They also rely on “white label” arrangements, where a foreign gambling company strikes a deal with a third party in a jurisdiction friendly to gambling — often Malta or the Isle of Man — to provide it with a licence granting legal access to the UK market.
“Far too often, we have no real sense of the true ownership, source of wealth or consumer base of these so-called ‘white label’ gambling operators,” says Dr James Noyes, senior fellow of the Social Market Foundation think tank and author of a major report on gambling reform. “Yet we see them everywhere on squad shirts and the sides of pitches.”
One senior figure at a Premier League team has told The Athletic that clubs are “between a rock and a hard place” because the deals ultimately do not break UK law and provide desperately-needed cash during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier this year The Athletic revealed how Premier League clubs may be “facilitating illegal gambling” in China through these Asian sponsorship deals. The Gambling Commission has also admitted to “concern” that some white-label websites may not have effective anti-money laundering controls or carry out “sufficient due diligence” on websites to ensure there are no “links to criminal activity”.
The Athletic’s latest investigation into football’s murky relationship with such companies shows:
- Chelsea’s bizarre interaction with a fake LinkedIn network and the photograph of a Hollywood actor
- Multiple other clubs striking deals with apparently uncontactable people who may not exist
- New details of Southampton’s controversial 2019 partnership with LD Sports
- How football club sponsors’ products potentially expose fans to cybersecurity risks.
Definitely. However the ref gave a second yellow and not a straight red. As a minimum it was a foul and a yellow. So it wasn't hard on them at all. However the other two decisions was just a joke. They don't even anything out really, just shows further the quality of refs and var is a joke.
because the offside ones apparently has technology sort the lines out...still looks onside, how are we meant to have confidence in them lines from that dodgy angle? id like to see that technology calibrated
The corruption is institutional, has been since SKY basically owned the Prem.
They've got the team's they want at the top of the table, bar Utd. The ones with the highest support numbers. They're doing what they can to ensure it stays that way.
Or Liverpool at home.
The dark clouds will all be lifted at the weekend when we do Watford and the scum get steamrolled by Citeh. Sets us up for NLD. COYS
Why was it given as offside, when it goes against the absolute opposite of what the PGMOL came out with at the beginning of the season as one of the changes they were implementing?
As soon as the refs got commended for not giving these boarderline offsides they changed tact. It happened about a month ago. I reckon they got fed up not making ridiculous decisions and wanted a bit more limelight.